Order of St. Andrew

Imperial Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle the First Called Орден Святого апостола Андрея Первозванного
Awarded by The Head of the House of Romanov
Type	Order of Knighthood
Established	1698
Motto	За веру и верность "For Faith and Loyalty"
Status	Rarely constituted
Sovereign	Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna
Grand Master	Grand Duke George Mikhailovich
Grades	Knight[citation needed]
Statistics
First induction	1698 Count Fyodor Golovin
Last induction	2021 King Fuad II of Egypt & Leka, Crown Prince of Albania
Precedence
Next (higher)	Hero of the Russian Federation
Next (lower)	Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky Order of Saint Catherine
Ribbon of the order

The Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called (Russian: Орден Святого апостола Андрея Первозванного, romanized: Orden Svyatogo apostola Andreya Pervozvannogo) is the highest order conferred by both the Russian Imperial Family (as an Order of Knighthood) and by the Russian Federation (as a state order). Established as the first and highest order of chivalry of the Russian Tsardom and the Russian Empire in 1698, it was removed from the honours system under the USSR before being re-established as the top Russian civil and military order in 1998.